30 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
NOTES ON A LONGICORN BEETLE 
(Burynassa Figurata, Pasc.) 
By H. W. Cox. 
. This beetle is recorded from N. 8. Wales and Queensland. 
It is common about Sydney, being found plentifully under the 
. loose bark of Hucalyptus punctata. f 
Boring in the main trunk of a Hucalyptus squamosa at Port 
Hacking, a larva was obtained on April 10, 1902. It was 34in. 
long and din. in girth at the thoracic segments, and had the 
white colour and usual firm of a longicorn larva; head and 
jaws black and dark brown in colour; posterior part of the head 
much sunken into the first thoracic segment, which is the 
broadest and largest segment of the body; the three thoracic 
segments each bear a pair of legs (ferruginous) ; abdominal 
segments distinct ; of these the anterior seven are transversely 
‘yulcate on the dorsal and ventral surfaces, and the seventh is 
dorsally much elevated aboye the adjacent segments; the 
eighth and anal segments not sulcate. 
This specimen pupated in October, 1904, and became adult 
in November, 1904. 
At Hawkesbury River, on June 25, 1905, 1 found a piece of 
dry wood, probably of a Casuarina glauca, containing boring 
larve. The first adult emerged on December 3, 1905; it was 
an imperfect specimen. At this date another was in the pupal 
stage and measured 2in: in length, becoming adult in January, 
1906. . Further investigation is necessary to ascertain the 
length of the larval stage. The Port Hacking specimen was 
alive in my possessi n for two years and seven months. 
Possibly growth was retarded by the drying of the piece of 
wood cut out with the grub. The Hawkesbury larve, how- 
ever, were in dry wood, and seemed apparently about the same 
size as the Port Hacking larva, but they became adult within 
five and six months. 
Itis possible Pucalyptus punctata will be found to be the 
usual food plant of this species, as the adult beetles frequent 
this tree almost exclusively, and within the trunk are often to 
be found chambers larger than those made by Stigmodera gory? 
to which this tree is the food plant. 
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CURRENT LITERATURE. 
By W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S. 
During last year several important additions have been made 
to our knowledge of the Insect Fauna of Australia. TT. D. 
-Cockerell, who has been studying the collections of bees in the 
British Museum, has contributed a number of papers to Annals 
and Magazine of Natural History, 1904-5, entitled “ Descriptions 
and Records of Bees,’ in which about 70 new Australian 
species-are described. In 1904, Messrs. Perkins and Koebele, 
